Reviewed by Lexie CornerJun 6 2025 Cornell University researchers have developed a method for safely heating specific areas ...

Cornell researchers have developed a new way to safely heat up specific areas inside the body by using biodegradable polymers ...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Forget to bring your charger with you on vacation? What if your clothing could generate electricity from ...

The development of models that encompass the heterogeneity of many high-performance polymers should help to improve predictive power in the design of thermoelectric materials. Figure 4 ...

AZoM talks to Juergen Blumm, Managing Director of Sales, Service and Marketing at NETZSCH, about the need for Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) in the thermal analysis of polymers. With NETZSCH ...

A few years ago Xavier Crispin discovered that conductive polymers can be thermoelectric. A thermoelectric material undergoes a diffusion of electronic charge carriers to the cold region when the ...

Study: Probing the Carrier Dynamics of Polymer Composites with Single and Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Fillers for Improved Thermoelectric Performance. Image Credit: Forance/Shutterstock.com Background ...

The first paper, in Nature Energy, showed the potential that SWCNTs have for thermoelectric applications, but the films prepared in this study retained a large amount of insulating polymer.

In recent years, conjugated polymer-based material has received attention as an environmentally benign alternative to the conventional rare earth metal-based thermoelectric materials. Owing to ...

A few years ago Xavier Crispin discovered that conductive polymers can be thermoelectric. A thermoelectric material undergoes a diffusion of electronic charge carriers to the cold region when the ...

He said ABE could allow the hitching of solar panels to thermoelectric heat pumps to reduce the cost of cooling and heating. “You could seamlessly attach our system to various building surfaces,” said ...